Assuming that FOIA isn't a hoax, all of that information will be available for public release within 20-50 years, and the "weaknesses" of whichever encryption system assuming that the system is strong enough to resist for the de-classification time period are perfectly adequate.
The Skill component is not sufficent to move it from the game of chance column to the game of skill column. Same for BlackJack. In Poker as in blackjack the skill is in the meta-game component ie managing wagers. If you always be $5 per hand in Blackjack, you will always lose money even with perfect play. You will only lose ~$5 every 100 hands, but you will still lose. OTOH if you also adjust your wagers when the deck is favorable you can potentially win as much as $50 per 100 hands. with Poker, there are 52 cards to memorize, and a simple set of hands, beyond that you gotta know how to play a good hand, when to fold and how to play the table as well.
The problem with your analogy is that no one PAYS for the points in a football game. You're right, you can't put a price on most sports or video games scores, but when it comes to online property people can. How do I know this? because they have. The 12 million gold pieces will get you a real life amount of money. The gold becomes a good or a service. It isn't what the items are named that is important, it is the fact that the online goods draw real world cash.
Of course they do. Most of the time they get away with it. Its called point shaving, throwing the game, etc. It's why Pete Rose isn't in the Baseball hall of fame, Why the 1919 "Black Sox" are so famous and so many other things. Do people get rich off of it, you betcha. Do people go to Jail for it? Sometimes.
Wrong of course, since Magic: The Gathering both in the actual and meta(deck building) games is a game of skill. Yes, there are elements of chance that cannot be eliminated, but the primary element is one of skill. Just as in Professional Video game playing or Professional wargaming, the Random elements do not eliminate the skill component they merely normalize it.
Or you could have just "locked" the corpse to those who "participated" in the "kill" and the person who owned the corpse. That is of course how most MMORPGs handle(d) things.
You can read hundreds of novels in a sitting? Even when I'm flying halfway across the US, I only need about 1200 pages of material to keep my mind occupied. And I can fairly easily manage 1200 pages of material in paper form
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Actually it is in Genesis Chapter 19: 30-36. It's really not that salacious.Gen 19
And yet, returning that copy to paper will cost very nearly what acquiring the used book cost originally and will not be of the same quality as the original.
There isn't generally a need for DRM with books because a *USED* copy of the non-drm book can USUALLY be acquired for 30-40% of the cost of duplicating the book(without binding) using the cheapest available methods. cost photocopying a 500 page book starts at $5 for paper and also includes time to flip the pages, toner costs etc. so while it might be affordable to photocopy a $120 text book at 500 pages most 500 page works sell NEW for $18-30(US).
Why do you think professors assign a new book every year?? they are "co-authors" and get a cut. Personally, I'd rather see higher classroom costs and higher salaries, but professors TEND not to make a very good wage, so the textbook "racket" is a nice supplemental.
Well in the parts of the world where HIV/AIDS is endemic, there are thousands who believe that raping a virgin will cure their illness, so they are quickly running out of virgins and of individuals who aren't infected.
Which is why there are quite a few that block "un-needed" ports such as those commonly used by Kazaa et al. Because blocking a port for all users because it can be mis-used is OK, filtering a port for Filesharing traffic is censorship and they can then be required to filter port 80 for "inappropriate" content.
The bad habits are the fault of the teacher, not the language, and trusting the language to prohibit the "bad" habits means that those tools won't be available when they are needed.
To elaborate on this post and add my opinion. Figure out how much you can afford to spend, Then SPEND ALL OF IT. 5 years down the road, you will either want upgrades or not, and it may be cheaper for components or not, but don't cut corners. If you can afford to put cat5/6 x 4 in each room, do it because adding wiring later won't be any cheaper. and having the wiring already in means you can upgrade the wall plugable components. Don't cut corners on connectivity within the house. As others have suggested go as wild as you can afford(and is safe) on power. Unless you are personally running every conduit for power, coax and cat5/6, and pulling every cable; the wire is the cheap part.
For a truly un-qualified geek/nerd to be found on slashdot, the 1 socket per stud with a set of un-interuptable sockets per room sounds very reasonable. I would kill for enough sockets in my "computer" room to actually "use" all of my computers simultaneously. Now having that kind of service in every room may be extreme, but having 1 or 2 rooms wired that way sounds very rational.
And of course wireless is very nearly impossible to effectively secure from eavesdropping. Just ask anyone who showed up on the "wall of sheep" at defcon.
If you are "winning" the "commercial" space race by as far as Boeing and Lockheed apparently are, why change the rules?
I'd be willing to take Long odds that Lockheed and/or Boeing have "tested prototypes" that could launch more, better, faster and cheaper; and are waiting for them to become economically/commercially necessary to use them.
This is the way business works. IBM didn't release the "PC" until competition made it necessary. IBM didn't release the "XT with Hard drive" until it there was a clear market, and Boeing or Lockheed won't release a "civilian"/commercial space program without customers.
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Of course in order for card counting to be effective, you do need to know "basic strategy" which can be found online.
Assuming that FOIA isn't a hoax, all of that information will be available for public release within 20-50 years, and the "weaknesses" of whichever encryption system assuming that the system is strong enough to resist for the de-classification time period are perfectly adequate.
What do you mean where ?
The Skill component is not sufficent to move it from the game of chance column to the game of skill column. Same for BlackJack. In Poker as in blackjack the skill is in the meta-game component ie managing wagers. If you always be $5 per hand in Blackjack, you will always lose money even with perfect play. You will only lose ~$5 every 100 hands, but you will still lose. OTOH if you also adjust your wagers when the deck is favorable you can potentially win as much as $50 per 100 hands. with Poker, there are 52 cards to memorize, and a simple set of hands, beyond that you gotta know how to play a good hand, when to fold and how to play the table as well.
Wrong of course, since Magic: The Gathering both in the actual and meta(deck building) games is a game of skill. Yes, there are elements of chance that cannot be eliminated, but the primary element is one of skill. Just as in Professional Video game playing or Professional wargaming, the Random elements do not eliminate the skill component they merely normalize it.
Well if you would log in, you wouldn't have that problem.
Or you could have just "locked" the corpse to those who "participated" in the "kill" and the person who owned the corpse. That is of course how most MMORPGs handle(d) things.
What if the girl turned out to be a 45 year old unemployed fat white guy from oklahoma?
~points to xerox color laser copier.
You can read hundreds of novels in a sitting? Even when I'm flying halfway across the US, I only need about 1200 pages of material to keep my mind occupied. And I can fairly easily manage 1200 pages of material in paper form
Actually it is in Genesis Chapter 19: 30-36. It's really not that salacious.Gen 19
I got my copy of that volume for $.98 at a thrift store.
And yet, returning that copy to paper will cost very nearly what acquiring the used book cost originally and will not be of the same quality as the original.
There isn't generally a need for DRM with books because a *USED* copy of the non-drm book can USUALLY be acquired for 30-40% of the cost of duplicating the book(without binding) using the cheapest available methods. cost photocopying a 500 page book starts at $5 for paper and also includes time to flip the pages, toner costs etc. so while it might be affordable to photocopy a $120 text book at 500 pages most 500 page works sell NEW for $18-30(US).
Why do you think professors assign a new book every year?? they are "co-authors" and get a cut. Personally, I'd rather see higher classroom costs and higher salaries, but professors TEND not to make a very good wage, so the textbook "racket" is a nice supplemental.
Well in the parts of the world where HIV/AIDS is endemic, there are thousands who believe that raping a virgin will cure their illness, so they are quickly running out of virgins and of individuals who aren't infected.
Which is why there are quite a few that block "un-needed" ports such as those commonly used by Kazaa et al. Because blocking a port for all users because it can be mis-used is OK, filtering a port for Filesharing traffic is censorship and they can then be required to filter port 80 for "inappropriate" content.
The bad habits are the fault of the teacher, not the language, and trusting the language to prohibit the "bad" habits means that those tools won't be available when they are needed.
To elaborate on this post and add my opinion. Figure out how much you can afford to spend, Then SPEND ALL OF IT. 5 years down the road, you will either want upgrades or not, and it may be cheaper for components or not, but don't cut corners. If you can afford to put cat5/6 x 4 in each room, do it because adding wiring later won't be any cheaper. and having the wiring already in means you can upgrade the wall plugable components. Don't cut corners on connectivity within the house. As others have suggested go as wild as you can afford(and is safe) on power. Unless you are personally running every conduit for power, coax and cat5/6, and pulling every cable; the wire is the cheap part.
For a truly un-qualified geek/nerd to be found on slashdot, the 1 socket per stud with a set of un-interuptable sockets per room sounds very reasonable. I would kill for enough sockets in my "computer" room to actually "use" all of my computers simultaneously. Now having that kind of service in every room may be extreme, but having 1 or 2 rooms wired that way sounds very rational.
And of course wireless is very nearly impossible to effectively secure from eavesdropping. Just ask anyone who showed up on the "wall of sheep" at defcon.
So the Feces are ok if you can't taste them on your rare burger?
But you are ok with murdering plants?
If you are "winning" the "commercial" space race by as far as Boeing and Lockheed apparently are, why change the rules?
I'd be willing to take Long odds that Lockheed and/or Boeing have "tested prototypes" that could launch more, better, faster and cheaper; and are waiting for them to become economically/commercially necessary to use them.
This is the way business works. IBM didn't release the "PC" until competition made it necessary. IBM didn't release the "XT with Hard drive" until it there was a clear market, and Boeing or Lockheed won't release a "civilian"/commercial space program without customers.